Imagery is a process, a journey which our mind is experiencing constantly through our waking hours and all states of sleep. When you wake up from a dream how do you know if it was real or a dream? And what is real and what is not? Our mind does not realize the difference between "reality" and fantasy.

Every thing that exists began with the thought. Every human being has an active imagination.
As you think so you become....   We have all heard this at some time or other during our life time.

Our thoughts create our reality. Our thoughts are energy forms which we call emotions. Our thoughts do dictate our emotions and feelings. And our emotions affect our physical experience. So by controlling our thoughts we can alter our emotions and choose or create our experiences.

In order to experience imagery for therapeutic purposes, first a hypnotic state is created. A state of hypnosis is a trance like state. Bypassing the critical barrier in our mind, the conscious and the sub-conscious mind are more aligned. The client gets into a receptive state is open to suggestive imagery and acting on it in real life experience.

All athletes use visualization to achieve their results, this is imagery. First they see themselves achieving their goals in their mind's eye, another term for active imagination and they repeat this process or journey repeatedly until they see it with their open eyes and the world watches it with them. We can tweak our visualization or imagery journeys as we progress closer and closer to our goals.

Just like life is a journey, so is achieving success a multi-step process. Depending on how large our goal is the longer our journey is. Small goals can be achieved in one session of imagery, but goals that are more complex will require many sessions.

As hypnotherapists, we understand suggestibility, sub-conscious behavior and know how to access the unconscious mind. We have a strong base from which to work. Using hypnosis we access the sub-conscious mind and hence the imagery process is more effective.

Every human carries their own unique symbol and images in their mind. Each of these images have their own unique interpretation which is unique to each of us as an individual or as a group. The images are created based on a person's response to life and their own suggestibility. Identification of these images is very usefil in providing suggestions to the sub-conscious mind.

e.g. in dream therapy, it is important to understand what an image means to the client at that given time of their life. The meaning of a symbol is unique for each person. A therapist can help the client find that metaphorical meaning but it has to be the client's interpretation. Correstive therapy is a good way to get subconscious messages from the client as well as to degine their images and symbols.